Saturday, August 9, 2008

Dispartiy

On the radio this morning there was a piece about the Olympics. The were discussing how many of the extravagant building that are housing the events were built by poor workers who couldn't afford to buy tickets to see the events. A startling disparity that will be forgotten in the midst of the excitement.

I see this disparity up close when to the shopping plaza near my house early in the morning. In the shopping plaza there is a Home Depot, and if you get there early enough you will see men, mostly of Hispanic decent, standing in the parking lot. These men are waiting for work, they are day labors. These men leave every morning to work in homes that they couldn't afford to live.
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Anonymous said...

There was an opinion piece written by someone called Fletcher who described Anti-Olympic protesters outside his condo as a howling mob.

He also thought their blocking the Olympic Totch Bearer was wrong.

I wonder if perhaps if instead someone were to use the torch bearer to make an Olympic event of burning Nazi flags live on televisionin the Olympic Stadium Fletcher would have been more receptive .

February 20, 2010 at 9:33 PM

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